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The Governance of Financial Regulation : Reform Lessons from the Recent Crisis

Levine, Ross - 2013

There was a systemic failure of financial regulation: senior policymakers repeatedly enacted and implemented policies that destabilised the global financial system. They maintained these policies even as they learned of the consequences of their policies during the decade before the crisis. The...

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Bank Supervision and Corruption in Lending

Demirguc-Kunt, Asli; Levine, Ross; Beck, Thorsten - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

Which commercial bank supervisory policies ease - or intensify - the degree to which bank corruption is an obstacle to … first empirical assessment of the impact of different bank supervisory policies on firms%u2019 financing obstacles. We find … that the traditional approach to bank supervision, which involves empowering official supervisory agencies to directly …

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An Autopsy of the U.S. Financial System

Levine, Ross - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

In this postmortem, I find that the design, implementation, and maintenance of financial policies during the period from 1996 through 2006 were primary causes of the financial system's demise. The evidence is inconsistent with the view that the collapse of the financial system was caused only by...

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Bank Regulatory Reforms and Racial Wage Discrimination

Levine, Ross; Levkov, Alexey; Rubinstein, Yona - In: The Social Value of the Financial Sector:Too Big to …

AbstractThe following sections are included:IntroductionBank Deregulation and Competition in Nonfinancial IndustriesBlacks’ Relative Wages and the Racial Bias IndexResultsPrerequisitesThe Impact of Deregulation on Blacks’ Relative WagesExtensionsConclusionsReferences

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Bank Regulation and Supervision : What Works Best?

Barth, James R. - 2005

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Stock Markets, Banks, and Growth : Correlation or Causality

Beck, Thorsten - 2004

Analysis of a panel data set for 1976-1998 shows that on balance stock markets and banks positively influence economic growth - findings that do not result from biases induced by simultaneity, omitted variables, or unobserved country-specific effects.Beck and Levine investigate the impact of...

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Law, Finance, and Economic Growth

Levine, Ross - 1999

This paper examines the question of how the legal environment affects financial development, and then asks how this in turn is linked to long-run economic growth. Financial intermediaries are better developed in countries with legal and regulatory systems that (1) give a high priority to...

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The African Slave Trade and Modern Household Finance

Levine, Ross - 2019

We evaluate the impact of the African slave trade between 1400 and 1900 on modern household finance. Exploiting cross-country and cross-ethnic group differences in the intensity with which people were enslaved and exported from Africa, we find that slave exports during the 1400-1900 period are...

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Deposit Supply and Bank Transparency

Jiang, Liangliang - 2019

economic shocks that relax a bank's dependence on external capital markets alter the cost-benefit calculations of bank managers …

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Corporate Resilience to Banking Crises : The Roles of Trust and Trade Credit

Levine, Ross - 2018

Are firms more resilient to systemic banking crises in economies with higher levels of social trust? Using firm-level data in 34 countries from 1990 through 2011, we find that liquidity-dependent firms in high-trust countries obtain more trade credit and suffer smaller drops in profits and...

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